On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 15:29 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 16:01 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > > > On 01/20/2017 09:44 PM, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > > > > > > > In contrast to Alexander, I would also keep > > > http://wiki.qemu-project.org/download/${BP}.tar.bz2 in > > > qemu_2.7.1.bb > > > with SRC_URI =+ because then there can be a qemu_git.bb with a > > > different > > > URL than the one above. > > I would discourage creation of such separate _git recipes, unless > > there > > is a clear benefit to the whole of oe-core. They are almost always > > untested and neglected, and eventually removed because they're > > outdated > > and broken and no one cares. > I wasn't suggesting to add one, just using the possibility that one > might want to add one as the rationale for keeping the download URL > for > the tarball out of the .inc file. > > It's all rather subjective and hinges on the likelihood of adding a > _git.bb (don't include it in the .inc) vs. adding more than one > versioned .bb (then including the common download in the .inc reduces > duplication).
There is actually an alternative proposal somewhere in bugzilla which would be to leave enough markup that we can easily enable a git version. That markup mostly being the git:// url in a variable. Ross was looking at that. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core